I have a iscsi lun mapped to a windows vm. when i tried to shrink that lun It says the NTFS file system does not have enough free space to shrink the disk to the size entered. Enter a valid disk drive size the drive is empty and nothing on it.
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ok thanks but what is the purpose of making a volume clone? since I have both snapshots running for flexvol0 and flexclone0, I dont see a need to restore flexvol0 from flexclone0 right? what can i do with the flexclone0 volume?
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so i was able to create a clone for a volume flexvol0 with some stuff in it vol clone create flexclone0 -b flexvol0 now that i have create a clone volume, I tried to offline flexvol0 which is fine. but I was not able to delete it. why is that? it says busy or it has a clone also with my flexvol0 offline, I see flexclone0 is online but how do I access that? flexclone0 should have the same data as flexvol0.
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I created a cifs share with cifs shares -add test /vol/flexvol0 by default it has everyone full control. how do I remove this and add a specific group in AD?
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ok i got it to work after using no reserve. but now whne i try to delete the lun clone snapshot it says SNapshot is busy because of LUN clone. any ideas? filer> lun snap usage test_vol test_vol_snap1 Snapshot - nightly.0: LUN: /vol/test_vol/.snapshot/nightly.0/test_lun0_clone Backed By: /vol/test_vol/test_vol_qtr/.snapshot/test_vol_snap1/test_lun0
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trying to clone a lun but getting this message filer> lun clone create /vol/test_vol/test_lun0_clone -b /vol/test_vol/test_vol_qtr/test_lun0 test_vol_snap1 lun clone create: No space left on device df -gh /vol/test_vol/ 100GB 95GB 4117MB 96% /vol/test_vol/ /vol/test_vol/.snapshot 25GB 1688KB 24GB 0% /vol/test_vol/.snapshot
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how do I resize a lun to fill out all the remaining space allowed? lun maxsize /vol/voltest/voltest_qtr Space available for a LUN of type: solaris, aix, hpux, linux, netware, vmware, openvms, xen, solaris_efi or image Without snapshot reserve: 16353m (17147363328) With snapshot reserve: no space With complete snapshot reserve: no space how do I use lun resize to automatically use all the remaining space?
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I found out that if didnt create the lun with full capacity of the volume, eg say the volume I create was 10GB and I specify the lun to max it out in MB then the lun protocol type will show as solaris but if I createa lun of say 5gb, then the lun protocol type will show as vmware. then i can resize it to the max and it will keep the protocol type at vmware. would you be able to check if you are getting the same result?
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when i create a lun in filerview for vmware, it keeps showing the lun protocol type as solaris. I did select it as vmware but it doesnt show it. any idea?
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what are interface groups. when i bootup the sim, it has 4 interfaces. I can give each interface its own ip. but should i use interface groups or no?
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im trying o understand but not getting it. by default i think the snapshot reservation is 20% and space reservation is checked. if i set snapshot resevation to 0 and uncheck space reservation. then a 50gb lun us a 50gb lun. then what i see within esx will refect what i see in the filer right? where does fractional reserve come into play? or where is this option? Thanks for your detailed explanation.
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>>Also when you're not changing anything and you're going to use snapshots then you minimum need twice the LUN space inside the volume (because fractional reserve is 100%). Can you explain this a little more. If I had a lun of 50GB. what happens with space reservation enabled?
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I have a lun on esx that is empty but df -r shows /vol/test/ 80GB 63GB 16GB 80% /vol/test/ but browsing to the datastore shows empty. any idea?
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i am rying to create a lun to my esx server but have not been able o do it. I have created he volume, qtree, lun and initialtor group and map the lun o the initiator group but rescan of the hba still does not see the lun. the san switch is configured correctly since no zones have been configured and its full access. any idea? I noticed that the lun i creaed in netapp even though i select vmware changes back to solaris afer its been created. any idea thanks
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looks like I am looking at the disks from one controller or management. When I go to the other controller I can create a new aggregate. But I dont understand why I cannot manage everything from one controller
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this is a fas3210. It has a aggr0 and 2 more aggrs created initially. But when I go to add another aggr. it says I have only 1 spare. here is a diagram
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